Creative Works
Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.

Shining a Light on Rainbow Life – 2023
This zine spotlights what is relevant to us, past or present, through the written word and evocative images. The writing ...

video: i am hungry for . . .
Quirk-e is an alumni group of the Arts and Healthy Aging program of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation ...

video: zoom greeting to the annual idahotb gathering in 2021
The COVID pandemic prevented us from attending the annual IDAHOTB gathering in Vancouver in 2021, so Quirk-e made this short ...

Book cover designs
Some of the imaging work of Quirk-e involves book cover designs. Several covers were designed by Quirk-e members. Some have ...

Pride and Joy 2023
Joy in our rainbow lives and the importance of the Pride Movement inspired this edition. There is creative writing, historic ...

video: workshop on conducting oral history interviews
Each year Quirk-e schedules two or three special skill-building workshops. This was a 2-hour session with El Chenier, a professor ...

video: book launch promo on zoom
Quirk-e published our eighth anthology Together We Stand: Queer Elders Speak Out just as COVID hit in 2020. We kept ...

video: storytelling workshop with david c. jones on zoom
Quirk-e invited popular storyteller and comedian David C. Jones to lead us in a 2-hour workshop on Zoom. He focused ...

We’re Queer and We’re Still Here! Aging With Pride and Still Speaking Up – 2022
In this Zine the issues that matter prompted pieces on Climate Change, war, pride, elder abuse but also allowed for ...

Fighting Racism from a Queer Perspective – 2021
Being activists and advocates for building a society of equality and justice, we produced this Zine in the wake of ...